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Empty

No barrel can hold two different drinks. If it is to contain wine, then the water must be poured out so that the barrel is quite empty. Therefore, if you wish to be filled with God and divine joy, then you must pour the creatures out of yourself. St Augustine says: ‘Pour out, [...]

Too late

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Augustine of Hippo (354-430), Confessions X, 27

God seeks…

God seeks us, not what belongs to us
Augustine of Hippo (354-430), Sermon 42:1

Overcoming

[Grace gave] a liberty … protected and made firm by the gift of perseverance, that this world should be overcome, this world in all its deep lovers, in all its terrors, in all its countless ways of going wrong.
Augustine, On Rebuke and Grace 12.35